Introduction to Biology Questions and Answers

​Introduction to Biology

​1.  1995 Q 1 P1

​Motor vehicles move, use energy and produce carbon dioxide and water. Similar characteristics occur in living organisms yet motor vehicles are not classified as living. List the other characteristics of living things that do NOT occur in motor vehicles.

1. They reproduce
2. They grow
3. They respond to stimuli

​Give the name to the study of:

2.  2010 Q 1 P1

• a)  The cell (1 mark)
• b)  Micro--organism. (1 mark)

• ​The study of cells is called cell biology, cellular biology, or cytology.
  

• ​The study of micro-organisms (also known as microbes) is called microbiology, and it is increasingly relevant in Biology.

​Write three major differences between plants and animals

​​List the use of the energy obtained from the process of respiration.

• Growth of the organism
• Movement of the organism
• Maintenance of metabolic activities

​​State three characteristic similar in plants and animals.

• They grow
• They respire
• They have gaseous exchange
• They reproduce
• They excrete
• They respond to stimuli
• They have nutrition

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